UNDERRATED 'The Walking Dead's' drama: When a show features visual delights such as a decaying zombie torso dragging itself across a field, its easy to say AMC's new series drew a crowd by honoring the form. But for all the grisly scares, it's writer Frank Darabonts deft hand with the human element that has us coming back for more, as exhibited by the opening-night scene of a man racked by the emotional impossibility of euthanizing his infected wife.

UNDERRATED 'The Walking Dead's' drama: When a show features visual delights such as a decaying zombie torso dragging itself across a field, its easy to say AMC's new series drew a crowd by honoring the form. But for all the grisly scares, it's writer Frank Darabonts deft hand with the human element that has us coming back for more, as exhibited by the opening-night scene of a man racked by the emotional impossibility of euthanizing his infected wife. (AMC)

UNDERRATED 'The Walking Dead's' drama: When a show features visual delights such as a decaying zombie torso dragging itself across a field, its easy to say AMC's new series drew a crowd by honoring the form. But for all the grisly scares, it's writer Frank Darabonts deft hand with the human element that has us coming back for more, as exhibited by the opening-night scene of a man racked by the emotional impossibility of euthanizing his infected wife.